Darwin's House of Cards by Tom Bethell (Trailer)
In this provocative history of contemporary
debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin’s
theory as a nineteenth-century idea past its prime, propped up by
logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but
disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell
presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern
evolutionary theory, investigating controversies over common descent,
natural selection, the fossil record, biogeography, information theory,
evolutionary psychology, artificial intelligence, and the growing
intelligent design movement. Bethell’s account is enriched by his own
personal encounters with some of our era’s leading evolutionary
thinkers, including Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard
Lewontin; British paleontologist Colin Patterson; and renowned
philosopher of science Karl Popper.